Peter Lorre in M (1931) – he parlayed his sensational portrayal of a serial killer in the Fritz Lang film to an English-language part (phonetically learned) in Hitchcock's
The Man Who Knew Too Much, ending up as Hollywood's go-to guy for portraying venal, non-All-American types

Ron Perlman, seen here in Outlander (2008). One of the most versatile actors around: cover him in red makeup and he's Hellboy, put him in fur and mane and you have Vincent from television's Beauty and the Beast

The late Vincent Schiavelli was an unmistakable presence in a wide range of movies, with parts ranging from Fredrickson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) to Mr Vargas in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), and here as Buggy Ding Dong in Death to Smoochy (2002)

Back to Europe, and here's Dominique Pinon in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Delicatessen (1991). Jeunet's cameras evidently love Pinon: he has used the actor to great effect in all his films since Things I Like, Things I Don't Like (1989), including Alien: Resurrection (1997) and Amélie (2001)